 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS ; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...that which came latest, was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS ; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one a : • ' : the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas ; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...that which came latest, was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 442 pages
...brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas ; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely oue after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...died on the fiOlh or the 51«: of January, and was burleU on the day this letter «u written. M.] 93 heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...buried on the day this letter was written. M.] .flat. SO.] 93 beard Johnson say, that if they hart aracters of their language ?" JOHNSON: " Sir, they...alphabet. They have not been able to form what all other Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namel'v, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...published in March or April, 1 7-">!i. — BOSWELL. plan and conduct to Johnsons RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...was published in March or April, 1759. — BOSWELL. plan and conduct to Johnsons RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...was published in March or April, 1759. — BOSwELL. plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not...of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state... | |
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Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so... 
